Just wondering if others have read about other ships as massive as Dahak or his planetoid “friends”?

Obviously, Rama comes to mind. But not even close, of course. About ?10 km in width vs. Dahak's 3500+ km in diameter?!! Not even close. Dahak is basically the size of our moon and he stood in its place for milenia. On top of that he is a mighty fighting machine. Best of the line in his day. For me, this brought the notion of ships in space to another level. It has left me craving for more.

The closest thing I recall (which I read before the Dahak series, but I don't know which came first) is David Brin's uplift series. At some point, I think it's humanity who finds in the “encyclopedia” the location of a vast fleet of ships the size of moons. If memory serves, there were 100s of them. But that's as far as it went and they were described as somewhat obsolete. There was no exploration of these monsters. We never got to see them in action. We never got to live their history and appreciate their might. They were virtually an abstract idea, a treasure people where fighting for.

I'd also enjoy reading from others on how they liked Dahak and his band of planetoids. If you've run into anything like them, pls share ;)

I heard of an animated series with giant mechs, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann where the mechs used were actually larger than Dahak. And were used to help pilot even larger mechs. And one of the mechs could shoot to hit every point in time and space. simultaneously.

Colin wrote:Just wondering if others have read about other ships as massive as Dahak or his planetoid “friends”?

Obviously, Rama comes to mind. But not even close, of course. About ?10 km in width vs. Dahak's 3500+ km in diameter?!! Not even close. Dahak is basically the size of our moon and he stood in its place for milenia. On top of that he is a mighty fighting machine. Best of the line in his day. For me, this brought the notion of ships in space to another level. It has left me craving for more.

The closest thing I recall (which I read before the Dahak series, but I don't know which came first) is David Brin's uplift series. At some point, I think it's humanity who finds in the “encyclopedia” the location of a vast fleet of ships the size of moons. If memory serves, there were 100s of them. But that's as far as it went and they were described as somewhat obsolete. There was no exploration of these monsters. We never got to see them in action. We never got to live their history and appreciate their might. They were virtually an abstract idea, a treasure people where fighting for.

I'd also enjoy reading from others on how they liked Dahak and his band of planetoids. If you've run into anything like them, pls share ;)

Three words "Not. Even. Close." see this size comparison for just how big Dahak (version 1) is compared to them (the Deathstars are 7th and 8th from the bottom, Dahak is the background picture). There are alternative views that say the Deathstars were much bigger than shown there but even so the largest estimate is only about 900km in diameter, not much more than a quarter of Dahak's ~3,400km diameter.

Then Doc Smith made BIG ships! In Skylark of Valeron an Skylark DuQuesne, he used "ships" as large as he could imagine moving. Had he lived longer, he no doubt would have stretched his imagination further. He was already using planets as missiles.